STATE PRISON ATTACKED.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19168, 26 November 1927, Page 15

STATE PRISON ATTACKED.

OUTRAGE IN U.S.A. GUARDS TO THE RESCUE. (BT CABLB—rRJSS ASSOCIATION—COrTRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND K.Z CABLI ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 24th, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 24. A message from Sacramento says ihat an army of several hundred moil is mobilising outside the Folsom Slate L'rison for an organised assault on a barricaded position. Seven leaders attempted to release 1200 prisoners, but their escape was frustrated within the walls in a battle in which the assistant turnkey was killed and three guards seriously wounded. The leaders, who were armed with guns, and knives-, barricaded the doors of the main coll block and took up a position of vantage in a hospital directly above the entrance to the block, where 1200 prisoners are at large. Two hundred and fifty National Guards and 100 police have left the city for the prison, where they will attack with light field artillery, machine guns, and grenades if the loaders refuse to surrender. CASUALTY LIST GROWS. (AUSTRALIAN A\D N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION'.) (Received November 25th, 10.50 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 24. Sacramento reports that seven men arc now dead and twenty-two wounded in Folsom State Prison. The uprising to-night settled down into a bitter siege of the revolting convicts by over five hundred militiamen, deputysheriffs-, and other officers. Two guards and five convicts were killed, and seventeen convicts, a police officer, and the warden's secretary, were wounded. Warden Smith, who for a time was isolated in his office, to leave which he had to run the gauntlet of marauding convicts, directed operations ag..inst rioters over the telephone, and finally succeeded in quitting the prison without being seen by the prisoners.